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Dec. 18 Bulletin Dec. 18 Bulletin Bulletin Dec. 18, 2020 Greetings! We hope you enjoy this year-end issue of the Bulletin. In April, the Bulletin stepped up digital efforts, increasing member news coverage, launching a special section for those covering COVID-19 and adding a resource section. We also increased member news coverage by orders of magnitude. Overall, we served up more than 33,000 words in the People column this year, 29,700 of that since April. That’s about triple the amount for the same period last year. With the addition of OPC Award-winner conversations online, along with other panels and book nights, we hosted a total of 22 programs, also about three times more than previous years. Those 22+ hours are edited into more than 140 short video clips on our YouTube channel. If you want to catch up on programs you missed this winter break, please scroll down to the bottom to explore a list of links to each of the program recaps, which include the video clips. The conversations with award winners have been outstanding, and we are proud to have facilitated the "stories behind stories" and journalism insights for our video library. Thank you to members who sent in news tips and links to stories so we can crow about your work in the People column. Please don't hesitate to keep letting us know what’s happening in your career, to share the work you're most proud of, and to send tips about your colleagues. Send news to https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Dec--18-Bulletin.html?soid=1102853718750&aid=JfANkADaiyM[12/20/2020 8:57:39 PM] Dec. 18 Bulletin [email protected], or feel free to ping us with an at-mention or DM on Twitter. This issue, we have four program recaps, six previews of events coming up in early 2021, and more People coverage and resources. Chad Bouchard Bulletin Editor Upcoming OPC Events RSVPs are essential. We will send Zoom links to those who register about an hour before each program. Please register early! Jan. 5: The Madeline Dane Ross Award Time: 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time Please join the OPC for a discussion with this year’s winner of the Madeline Dane Ross Award, Karla Zabludovsky, the Mexico bureau chief and Latin America correspondent for BuzzFeed News, who won for the entry titled "The Fight for Women’s Rights in Latin America." The moderator will be Hannah Allam, who served as head judge for the award. The Madeline Dane Ross Award honors the year's best international reporting in the print medium or digital showing a concern for the human condition. Judges for the award said: "Zabludovsky wrote with great passion and a sense of urgency about ordinary women in Latin America whose lives were upended by the restrictive – and sometimes deadly – reproductive health laws that are the norm in the region." RSVP Now Jan. 8: Book Night: A Red Line in the Sand—An OPC Chat with David Andelman Time: 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time Join the OPC for cocktails and conversation with https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Dec--18-Bulletin.html?soid=1102853718750&aid=JfANkADaiyM[12/20/2020 8:57:39 PM] Dec. 18 Bulletin OPC Past President David A. Andelman, to discuss his book, A Red Line in the Sand: Diplomacy, Strategy, and the History of Wars That Might Still Happen. Andelman concludes that more red lines—political, diplomatic, social, military—exist today than at any other single moment in history, many utterly indefensible and destabilizing. A longtime columnist for CNN and a veteran correspondent for The New York Times and CBS News, Andelman combines history and global politics to help us trace the origins and better understand the exploding number of military, political, and diplomatic crises around the globe. Questions Andelman will address include: When and how can such lines in the sand help preserve peace rather than tempt conflict? What mistakes were made during the four years of Donald Trump that must urgently be corrected in the early months of Joe Biden? Deborah Amos, international correspondent for NPR, will moderate. RSVP Now Jan. 12: The Kim Wall Award Time: 12:00 p.m. (noon) Eastern Time Please join the OPC for a discussion with this year’s winners of the Kim Wall Award, members of the New York Times team that produced "The Russia Tapes: Health Care and Civilians Under Attack in Syria." The program will include Malachy Browne, senior producer, Christiaan Triebert, video journalist, Evan Hill, video journalist, and Whitney Hurst, senior producer. The Kim Wall Award honors the best story or series of stories on international affairs using creative and dynamic digital storytelling techniques. The moderator will be Louise Roug, executive editor, international at HuffPost. Read the winning work here >> https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Dec--18-Bulletin.html?soid=1102853718750&aid=JfANkADaiyM[12/20/2020 8:57:39 PM] Dec. 18 Bulletin Judges’ comments: “The New York Times team approached this under covered story with innovative use of digital tools – not just to enhance the storytelling but to report the story itself.” RSVP Now Photo above, clockwise from upper left: Malachy Browne, Evan Hill, Christiaan Triebert, Dmitriy Khavin and Whitney Hurst. Jan. 14: The Roy Rowan Award Time: 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time Please join the OPC for a discussion with this year’s winners of the Roy Rowan Award for best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story. The winners were members of a New York Times team with an entry titled “Russia’s Shadow War.” Joining the discussion will be Malachy Brown, senior producer of the visual investigations team, along with Michael Schwirtz, Dionne Searcey and David Kirkpatrick. Head judge James B. Steele will moderate. Judges said: "The analysis of the cockpit recordings, the digital forensics, the deciphering of the Russian military codes was unlike anything any of us had seen before by a news organization. It brought us a view of Russia much darker and sinister than we’d seen before." RSVP Now Photo above, clockwise from upper left: Michael Schwirtz, Dionne Searcey, David Kirkpatrick and Malachy Browne. Jan. 22: Memorial for Seymour Topping Time: 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Dec--18-Bulletin.html?soid=1102853718750&aid=JfANkADaiyM[12/20/2020 8:57:39 PM] Dec. 18 Bulletin Please join the OPC for a memorial service over Zoom to honor the memory of longtime OPC member Seymour Topping, a veteran foreign correspondent and editor who died on Nov. 8 at the age of 98. You can read more about Topping's life and work on our People Remembered page here. RSVP Now Feb. 12: Book Night: You Don’t Belong Here - an OPC Chat with Elizabeth Becker Time: 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time Join the OPC for cocktails and conversation with Elizabeth Becker, an award-winning reporter, to discuss her book You Don’t Belong Here, the long- buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war. Ann Cooper, Professor Emerita of the Columbia Journalism School, will be the moderator. RSVP Now Robert Spiers Benjamin Award Winner Details Reporting on Latin America by Chad Bouchard In 2019, Azam Ahmed, New York Times bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, embarked on a quest to find out what underlying conditions were driving such staggering numbers of Mexicans and Central Americans to seek asylum in the United States. https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Dec--18-Bulletin.html?soid=1102853718750&aid=JfANkADaiyM[12/20/2020 8:57:39 PM] Dec. 18 Bulletin Those questions led him to locations across the region, where he embedded himself in communities under siege and witnessed firsthand the effects of the drug-fueled homicide crisis gripping the region. On Dec. 17, the OPC hosted a discussion with Ahmed, whose work won a Robert Spiers Benjamin Award for best reporting in any medium on Latin America. His series, “Kill or Be Killed: Latin America’s Homicide Crisis,” included stories about Honduras, Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala and Jamaica. The moderator was William Booth, London bureau chief for The Washington Post, who served as head judge. Read the Full Recap Here Photo: Azam Ahmed, above, talks with William Booth. Whitman Bassow Award Winners Share Stories From The Trenches Of The ‘WWF’s Secret War’ by Chad Bouchard Two years ago, BuzzFeed journalists Tom Warren and Katie J.M. Baker set out to unravel a vast global conservation effort that had repeatedly ignored human right abuses and atrocities against Indigenous communities, including rape, torture and murder. Those abuses were allegedly committed by government agents who were funded and bolstered by a pattern of denial and secrecy within the largest conservation organization in the world, the World Wide Fund for Nature, or WWF. On Dec. 15, 2020, the OPC hosted a discussion with Warren and Baker, whose year-long investigation won this year’s Whitman Bassow Award for best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues. The head judge for the award, Kim Murphy of The New York Times, served as moderator. https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Dec--18-Bulletin.html?soid=1102853718750&aid=JfANkADaiyM[12/20/2020 8:57:39 PM] Dec. 18 Bulletin The series of stories, titled "WWF’s Secret War," took the team to five countries across Africa and Asia as they built a bulletproof body of evidence showing that the organization had ignored widespread complaints of abuse and knowingly funded park rangers and paramilitary groups that terrorized communities in the name of anti-poaching campaigns. Read the Full Recap Here Photo above, clockwise from upper left: Kim Murphy, Katie J.M.
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